More Progress on Albert-Kings County Energy Finds, Future
New Brunswick Has a Fledgling Energy Exploration Activity and Future
There is more progress to report on New Brunswick finding it's future in having access to energy reserves within the Province.
There are two separate developments occuring in southern New Brunswick of significance.
While we have been focusing on the remarkable progress in the Sussex Hiram Brook region, where there are plans afoot to create a pipleline connection to ship- read export to the US - natural gas surplus, there is more quiet activity in Albert County.
Albert County was one of the first prosperous county economies in the history of New Brunswick, it was also the first county to go into fairly substantial decline as the natural resources and strategic value of sail and steam powered global economies disappeared.
Albert County, south of Moncton bordered by the Petitcodiac River, the Bay of Fundy Coastline and bordering on Kings and Westmorland Country is hardly on anyone's radar as an economic force; except what was old and beyond the primitive technology of only a few decades ago is now new again thanks to surging oil prices and technology developed in Alberta's tar sands to get productive oil out of goop oil sludge.
From the time I was a small boy working in the woods of our Albert County farm with my father, the water lying naturally on the spoggy swamp area of the woodlot was oil stained as if someone had changed their motor oil on the forest floor. Albert County is full of oil as this article expains. The big problem is that it is locked in shale, it has the viscosity of molasses on a cold day and will require steam pumped into the deep veins of the deposits to warm it enough to bring it to the top for refining.
And then there is the natural gas that resides in the same area. This same vein of gas runs largely underground through the Elgin basis and connects over to the McCully field area. It is not a sure thing, but keep your toes crossed because for our grandchildren, it could be as important as it once was for your grandparents in the greater, Metro Moncton area.
Progress Update Report on Stoney Creek Oilfield -Albert County's Traditional Energy Sector
By OGJ editorsHOUSTON, Apr. 7 -- Contact Exploration Inc., Calgary, drilled the vertical section of the first modern well in idle Stoney Creek oil and gas field 10 miles south of Moncton.
The well reached 2,700 ft true vertical depth. A 1,000-2,000-ft horizontal leg is to be drilled and a completion rig mobilized.
Drilling to date confirmed the company's seismic model for the main target reservoir and identified shows in several secondary targets.
One of Canada's oldest fields, Stoney Creek produced 800,000 bbl of oil and 28.7 bcf of gas in 1909-91 from a reservoir 100 ft thick with 18% porosity and 160 md permeability. Recovery is less than 5% of OOIP. Incremental gas recovery is also expected.
Contact Exploration is applying 3D seismic, 3D reservoir modeling, and horizontal drilling technology to redevelop the field. The company has interests in 62,000 acres onshore New Brunswick and other acreage in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.
Second Development- New Brunswick gas field exploitation to grow
By OGJ editorsHOUSTON, Apr. 5 -- Corridor Resources Inc., Halifax, NS, plans to expand production in McCully natural gas field in New Brunswick, move toward a connection with the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, collect more 3D seismic data, and explore a deeper formation and areas adjacent to the field.
Corridor Resources said it has identified potentially large shale gas developments on its lands near McCully and along the route of a 49-km, 8-in. pipeline to connect the field to M&NE (OGJ Online, Feb. 8, 2006).
It has also identified gas and oil exploration targets, some of which have structural and trapping characteristics similar to McCully, in the Millstream subbasin north of McCully.
McCully, in the Moncton subbasin, has been delivering gas to a potash mill near Sussex, NB, for 3 years from two wells. The company estimated gas in place in the field at more than 1 tcf.
Corridor Resources plans to ready 14 other wells in the field, remote from service and supply infrastructure, for successive frac jobs in the fall of 2006.
The plan is to connect the field to M&NE by yearend and begin delivering 25 MMcfd from ten wells.
The company plans to drill, frac, and complete another 16 wells between fall 2006 and spring 2008, to boost deliveries to M&NE to 35 MMcfd. The plans assume the continuity of the productive Hiram Brook formation sand package, at a depth of 2,500 m, across the structure.
Longer term, the field might be capable of producing 80-90 MMcfd in 2009-10, which would require expansions of gathering lines and a gas conditioning plant.
Corridor Resources plans to drill a 3,500-m well this fall through the Fredericks Brook shale to evaluate underlying Dawson Settlement sands.
"Seismic and outcrop data suggest the structure at the Dawson Settlement level has the potential to trap and contain several trillion cubic feet of natural gas in place," the company said. Forward development plans would be altered significantly if the Dawson Settlement sands are commercial.
All of the named zones are members of the Albert formation of the Mississippian Horton Group.
The 3D survey planned in spring and summer 2006 is to help in locating possibly more than 50 new production well locations on the McCully structure based on 110-acre spacing beyond the current development phase's 30 wells.
Corridor Resources is evaluating several proposals regarding the financing, construction, ownership, and operation of the required McCully facilities, which are expected to cost $42 million. Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, on whose land McCully field was discovered, is considering whether to participate
There is more progress to report on New Brunswick finding it's future in having access to energy reserves within the Province.
There are two separate developments occuring in southern New Brunswick of significance.
While we have been focusing on the remarkable progress in the Sussex Hiram Brook region, where there are plans afoot to create a pipleline connection to ship- read export to the US - natural gas surplus, there is more quiet activity in Albert County.
Albert County was one of the first prosperous county economies in the history of New Brunswick, it was also the first county to go into fairly substantial decline as the natural resources and strategic value of sail and steam powered global economies disappeared.
Albert County, south of Moncton bordered by the Petitcodiac River, the Bay of Fundy Coastline and bordering on Kings and Westmorland Country is hardly on anyone's radar as an economic force; except what was old and beyond the primitive technology of only a few decades ago is now new again thanks to surging oil prices and technology developed in Alberta's tar sands to get productive oil out of goop oil sludge.
From the time I was a small boy working in the woods of our Albert County farm with my father, the water lying naturally on the spoggy swamp area of the woodlot was oil stained as if someone had changed their motor oil on the forest floor. Albert County is full of oil as this article expains. The big problem is that it is locked in shale, it has the viscosity of molasses on a cold day and will require steam pumped into the deep veins of the deposits to warm it enough to bring it to the top for refining.
And then there is the natural gas that resides in the same area. This same vein of gas runs largely underground through the Elgin basis and connects over to the McCully field area. It is not a sure thing, but keep your toes crossed because for our grandchildren, it could be as important as it once was for your grandparents in the greater, Metro Moncton area.
Progress Update Report on Stoney Creek Oilfield -Albert County's Traditional Energy Sector
By OGJ editorsHOUSTON, Apr. 7 -- Contact Exploration Inc., Calgary, drilled the vertical section of the first modern well in idle Stoney Creek oil and gas field 10 miles south of Moncton.
The well reached 2,700 ft true vertical depth. A 1,000-2,000-ft horizontal leg is to be drilled and a completion rig mobilized.
Drilling to date confirmed the company's seismic model for the main target reservoir and identified shows in several secondary targets.
One of Canada's oldest fields, Stoney Creek produced 800,000 bbl of oil and 28.7 bcf of gas in 1909-91 from a reservoir 100 ft thick with 18% porosity and 160 md permeability. Recovery is less than 5% of OOIP. Incremental gas recovery is also expected.
Contact Exploration is applying 3D seismic, 3D reservoir modeling, and horizontal drilling technology to redevelop the field. The company has interests in 62,000 acres onshore New Brunswick and other acreage in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.
Second Development- New Brunswick gas field exploitation to grow
By OGJ editorsHOUSTON, Apr. 5 -- Corridor Resources Inc., Halifax, NS, plans to expand production in McCully natural gas field in New Brunswick, move toward a connection with the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, collect more 3D seismic data, and explore a deeper formation and areas adjacent to the field.
Corridor Resources said it has identified potentially large shale gas developments on its lands near McCully and along the route of a 49-km, 8-in. pipeline to connect the field to M&NE (OGJ Online, Feb. 8, 2006).
It has also identified gas and oil exploration targets, some of which have structural and trapping characteristics similar to McCully, in the Millstream subbasin north of McCully.
McCully, in the Moncton subbasin, has been delivering gas to a potash mill near Sussex, NB, for 3 years from two wells. The company estimated gas in place in the field at more than 1 tcf.
Corridor Resources plans to ready 14 other wells in the field, remote from service and supply infrastructure, for successive frac jobs in the fall of 2006.
The plan is to connect the field to M&NE by yearend and begin delivering 25 MMcfd from ten wells.
The company plans to drill, frac, and complete another 16 wells between fall 2006 and spring 2008, to boost deliveries to M&NE to 35 MMcfd. The plans assume the continuity of the productive Hiram Brook formation sand package, at a depth of 2,500 m, across the structure.
Longer term, the field might be capable of producing 80-90 MMcfd in 2009-10, which would require expansions of gathering lines and a gas conditioning plant.
Corridor Resources plans to drill a 3,500-m well this fall through the Fredericks Brook shale to evaluate underlying Dawson Settlement sands.
"Seismic and outcrop data suggest the structure at the Dawson Settlement level has the potential to trap and contain several trillion cubic feet of natural gas in place," the company said. Forward development plans would be altered significantly if the Dawson Settlement sands are commercial.
All of the named zones are members of the Albert formation of the Mississippian Horton Group.
The 3D survey planned in spring and summer 2006 is to help in locating possibly more than 50 new production well locations on the McCully structure based on 110-acre spacing beyond the current development phase's 30 wells.
Corridor Resources is evaluating several proposals regarding the financing, construction, ownership, and operation of the required McCully facilities, which are expected to cost $42 million. Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, on whose land McCully field was discovered, is considering whether to participate
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